Succesful CI runs (on subpar runners so timings aren't accurate):

release ci run release page
docker ci run lighthouse lcli

Michael has already run some benchmarks

next step would be for us to dogfood this and deploy portable builds across the fleet.
it's now the default choice on our builder

I'm ok with rolling it out. I was hesitant previously because the benchmarks showed a slight detriment, but we should gather some data on what impact this small slowdown has on the real workload

I'm onboard to try it out 👍

I'm ok with rolling it out. I was hesitant previously because the benchmarks showed a slight detriment, but we should gather some data on what impact this small slowdown has on the real workload

We have portable builds running on our own fleet now, up to and including canaries, while mainnet runs the canonical non-portable release.
If we need more datapoints for the VC, I could update one or two mainnet VCs as they are quite homogenous, resource-wise. That should provide us with enough data.

I support this change also (under the believe that Michael's performance metrics show no real/significant performance degradation)

closing in favour of #5614 (docker) and #5615 (binaries), which are cleaner, split-out versions of this PR.